Sentence examples for be completely specious from inspiring English sources

This turned out to be completely specious.

It's completely specious.

In the last two years, I notified a journal editor that an early online publication was identical to an article the author had published elsewhere, and I published an article showing that a conclusion in a peer-reviewed paper was completely specious.

It is not about "cowing" anyone; it is about persuading them that you are right and should be allowed to do exactly what you want to do, even though your arguments are completely specious.

So, since Ms. Dobson's organization's completely specious claim that it is really Congressman Aderholt who is running the event, and the Army officials at the Pentagon are apparently going to play along and accept this farce as an out, we have to use other regulations (including other sections of the same regulations that include the non-federal entity stuff).

It's completely specious of lawmakers to insist that they're simultaneously respecting the rights of the mother and the "rights of the unborn" when the latter is so frequently and so callously used as justification for trampling on the former.

That all is fair in love and war is utterly beside the point if not completely specious.

These banks have captured the hearts and minds of top regulators and most of the political class (across the spectrum), most recently with completely specious arguments about why banks cannot be compelled to operate more safely.

In a telephone interview Saturday, Randy Levine, the Yankees' president, said, "Each and every one of these allegations is specious and completely false".

Lilly's argument is not entirely specious.

I find that to be very specious argument on the surface, but it bears further analysis.